@edgarblythe,
Thanks for restoring our signal, edgar. I was beginning to be concerned. Your comments on what we play here are always valuable.
Love those two songs by Harry. I know that one is about John Henry, but had to search out Water boy, and came across a jazz man that I had forgotten.
First some info on Don.
Don Shirley (born January 29, 1927) is an American-Jamaican jazz pianist and composer.
Shirley's prodigious piano skills were recognized early and Shirley began his career as a composer and virtuoso performer at a young age.
Don Shirley's music is hard to categorize. It is possible to say that as an arranger-composer he treats each piece of music as a new composition, not just an arrangement. Don plays Standards in a non-standard way. He is a virtuoso, playing everything from show tunes, to ballads, to his personal arrangements of Negro spirituals, to jazz, and always with the overtone of a classically-trained musician who has utmost respect for the music he is playing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR9d1l6oOxI
Also, to ease the tension, I listened to this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCrWxKoOhH8&NR=1
English lyrics.
That's awakening
And the night is already far away
Already, far away
Look at this world
Spinning with us
Even in the dark
Look at this world
Spinning for us
Giving us hope and some
Sun, sun sun
My love, you are you my love
I hear your voice,
And I listen to the sea.
It sounds just like your breathing
And all the love you want to give me
This love
That is there, hidden
Hidden among the waves
All the waves in the world
Just like a boat that....
Look at this world
Spinning with us
Even in the dark
Look at this world
Spinning for us
Giving us hope,
And some sun, sun, sun,
Some sun, sun, sun.
Look at this world
Spinning with us
Giving us some sun,
Mighty sun
Mighty sun
Mighty sun
